This congress, translated in English and French, is divided in 3 modules held over 3 days.
Module 1 / First steps in CTO PCI
- Starting a CTO program
- Learn & discover CTO tools: microcatheters, guide wires, guiding catheters
- Learn basic CTO techniques: antegrade approach, parallel wire, trapping balloon
- Managing complications of antegrade approach
- Post-procedural management of CTO patients
Module 2 / IMPROVE YOUR SKILLS IN CTO
- Starting a retrograde approach
- Learn about dissection re-entry, snaring technique, externalisation…
- Select approaches according to anatomy and occlusion type
- Learn useful techniques to improve success
- Managing complications of retrograde and dissection re-entry approaches
Module 3 / MASTERING CTO
- Management of complex CTO cases: ambiguous cap, uncrossable lesions
- Complementary imaging techniques: IVUS, CT-Scan…
- Use of Laser: complementary recanalization technique
- New techniques and new devices for CTO
- Team-building for CTO
- Complex complications of complex CTOs